Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student who left his notebook in one of the classrooms, I make my way to the lecture hall at the end of the building and sit down to take in the panel discussion that is already in session. Ostensibly a debate about artists crossing over from the underground music scene to the realm of record labels and music videos, it seems to have degenerated into a shouting contest--a competition of who can declare their world-view the most self-righteously and at the highest volume...
...Professor Calculus is kidnapped (once again) by shady foreign spies. Caught in a world of constant motion, there's hardly a moment for him to catch his breath before setting off again on some new adventure. The last panel of a Tintin book rarely depicts anything other than a scene of departure: we bid farewell to the boy reporter as he steams away on an ocean liner, boards an airplane or blasts off into the night sky in his rocket ship. An old man and his courageous son, recently rescued from the clutches of some nefarious revolutionary cell, stand...
...student who left his notebook in one of the classrooms, I make my way to the lecture hall at the end of the building and sit down to take in the panel discussion that is already in session. Ostensibly a debate about artists crossing over from the underground music scene to the realm of record labels and music videos, it seems to have degenerated into a shouting contest--a competition of who can declare their world-view the most self-righteously and at the highest volume...
...MARRIAGE OF A FLEDGLING Internet venture and creative e-mail solicitation, OurSquare.com occupies a position in Harvard's e-commerce scene. Competing with sites like varsitybooks.com (online textbook sales), OurSquare offers a decidedly different product: unabashed elitism...
...when moderation became the fashion, but it seems to have coincided with the introduction of khaki clothing by Banana Republic in the early '90s. It was an ominous sign of the sort of mediocrity we had to look forward to. Maybe people were sick of the whole '80s punk scene. Those shocking colors, large earrings and screaming music (not to mention that hair) were, admittedly, grating on the eyes. There were only so many days in a row you could wear your favorite lime green Converse sneakers. But compared to the uniform of the '90s--that drab khaki, white...